diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 84d44768..9c7fe949 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ myname = "Bastian Kleineidam"
 myemail = "calvin@users.sourceforge.net"
 
 setup (name = "linkchecker",
-       version = "1.7.0",
+       version = "1.7.1",
        description = "check HTML documents for broken links",
        author = myname,
        author_email = myemail,